St. Petersburg

STATE

September 14, 1989

INNOCENT VICTIM. Vigilantism led two men hunting a mugger to mistakenly abduct an innocent 12-year-old, police said. The youth was released shaken but unharmed. Kenneth McTier, 24, and his brother Dwayne McTier, 29, were arrested for false imprisonment. The case began when Tamra Jean Holmes was mugged on her way to a grocery store Monday evening. She called her boyfriend, Kenneth McTier. The McTiers jumped in their car and soon came upon Dyonte Ward, 12, who was carrying groceries home to his mother. He was wearing a red shirt, as one of the muggers had been. A neighbor alerted the boy's mother, Judy Givens, who flagged down a police officer and told him of the abduction.